323. Sponge Waters
As soon as the sea god consciousness entered the sea, he saw a scene of a new life coming to the world. Qin Shiou felt particularly excited and continued to move forward.
Leatherback turtles also live around here. Compared with the small star-spotted turtles, these guys are well-deserved giants.
It is also an endangered species. It is logical that leatherback turtles have a greater chance of survival than star-spotted water turtles, because star-spotted water turtles have at most seven or eight eggs, while leatherback turtles have an ordinary nest with 130 or 40 eggs.
However, what disappointed Qin Shiou was that there were more than 20 leatherback turtles in his fishing ground, but none of them hatched eggs.
In addition, he was also worried that it would be that he would have surrounded the range of movement of leatherback turtles, which led to changes in their living habits?
As we all know, leatherback turtles are swimmers in the ocean. They can even surround the world on the seabed for two weeks in their lifetime. In order to protect them, Qin Shiou tried his best not to leave the fishing ground. He felt that the fishing ground was large enough that even the bluefin tuna was moving, so he couldn't run away these turtles?
But now, he may have done something bad, which made him a little depressed, so he removed his control of leatherback turtles and let them survive according to their nature.
Wandering from the sea estuary from east to west, Qin Shiou walked around the flowers with nothing worth noting. The fishing grounds were well developed, and the fish were lush and strong, so a large number of fishing catches will be produced next year.
When he arrived at the original waters of Mr. Ross' fishing ground, he suddenly discovered that there were a lot of sponge creatures in the waters here.
There are sponges in the waters in other places, but not so many. The sea water here is filled with sponges, some like strings of big red lanterns, and some like exquisite vases, which look extremely beautiful.
Qin Shiou was a little confused. This shouldn't be true. Sponges rarely experience sudden population outbreaks, which is related to their living habits: they do not have the ability to exercise independently. Therefore, sponges in a certain area may only be that they suddenly reproduce in large quantities and grow rapidly.
Although it cannot move independently, it should be noted that sponges are animals, not plants, but tissues and organs with only two layers of internal and external cellular tissues in the whole body and no differentiation. They can be called the simplest animal on earth.
In the fishing ground, these sponges that appear either float in water or are attached to some stones. They have no mouths or digestive cavity, but there are many bulges on the surface of the body. In the middle of the bulge, there are small holes next to them. Sea water flows in from the holes and out from the holes. In this way, tiny plankton in the sea water enters the sponge with the water flow, providing nutrients for their survival and growth.
Sponges are not jellyfish. If there are too many of these things, they will not harm the fishing grounds, but they will only benefit because they have the ability to filter water. They can filter out impurities in seawater and play a role in regulating the content of heavy metals and trace elements.
In addition, sponges are one of the favorite foods for sea cucumbers. Qin Shiou has always wanted to breed sea cucumbers. The sponge resources in this area are so abundant, so you can throw sea cucumber seedlings here in the future.
Apart from sea cucumbers, sponges have no natural enemies in the ocean, and many small marine creatures like to be accompanied by sponges.
The sea god consciousness browsed in this water area, and Qin Shiou saw a group of small crabs finding sponges to tear them apart. Then he hung them on his legs and back shells, which looked like they were wearing a set of armor. They were also huge for one or two times, which could better defend and scare natural enemies.
More are American lobsters that survived before. Almost all of them swam into this sea area and followed the same thing with the crabs, wrapping the sponge around the shells. When they are in groups, the sponges blend together and look very powerful.
Qin Shiou wanted to find out why there were so many sponges in this water area, but after searching for it, he couldn't find it. This idea could only be given up.
Later, we went to the giant algae jungle, where the marine biodiversity is the highest. Giant algae attracted many fish and shellfish to stay and survive. If the resources in these places are reserved in time, the benefits that can be produced will be quite considerable.
It was fine to wander around the fishing ground, so Qin Shiou attached the consciousness of the sea god to the Black Bald King.
Now he has accumulated experience and no longer simply possessed himself to marine creatures, but chose a small thing first on a big fish, and he possessed it to that small thing. Otherwise, the perspective would be too single. For example, the last time he attached himself to the man-eating shark, he was surrounded by a modern white shark group and did not notice it.
Qin Shiou hung a goose-neck barnacle on the head of Heibawang. He didn't care about it. Compared to its terrifying body shape of ten meters, a barnacle parasitized on his forehead, which was as inconspicuous as an ordinary person's face with a small freckle on his face.
Taking over the head of the Black Overlord, Qin Shiou's vision became wider.
I couldn't do this before because at that time he could only control one creature at a time, and he was able to control two at the same time. Now he can control two at the same time. If he is not satisfied with the direction of the Black Overlord parade, he can directly possess himself and move according to his own wishes.
From beginning to end, the consciousness on the barnacle above my head was always sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai.
After a day of shopping, there was no gain. Qin Shiou asked Heibawang to play by himself, while he sat on the beach and leaned against the pineapple to watch the tiger and the leopards playing.
Just as I was watching it, Pineapple suddenly got up and left. Fortunately, Qin Shiou's waist was good, otherwise he would have suddenly pulled away from his back, which would have flashed his waist.
When he looked up, the pineapple walked into the sea unhappily. His dejected look seemed to be about to commit suicide by jumping into the sea. Qin Shiou was stunned.
Behind, Xiong Da's figure appeared. Xiong Da dragged his little friend Dabai and walked slowly, not knowing what he was chewing in his mouth. Bajibaji was so happy to eat. When he noticed that Qin Shiou looked at it, he ran up happily.
Qin Shiou looked at the pineapple that left and then at Xiong Da who appeared. He couldn't help laughing. He remembered what Winni said to him. Pineapple and Xiong Da had completely taken over, and both sides planned to break up to the end.
Just think that it was a child who was making trouble. Qin Shiou took Xiong Da, Hu Zi and Leopard to the pier, and found a place to throw a fish hook down, and sat on the pier as a fishing platform. He had nothing to do and had fishing.
Moose is one of the best animals to swim. Pineapple is soaked in water and swims up and down with the waves, which looks very comfortable. From time to time, it will pierce down. When it floats up, it will hold a trap of water grass, seaweed, etc. in its mouth.
After collecting two poles in a row, Qin Shiou caught a half-large turbot and a gluttonous sea bass. He kept the turbot for dinner and handed over the sea bass to Xiong Da. He solved it on the spot.
Seeing Qin Shiou feeding Xiong Da, the pineapple was unwilling to do so. It pretended to swim casually and accidentally swam under the dock. With it here, it was a big guy like an orca who dared to bite the hook and swallow the bait.
Come on, don’t think about fishing. Qin Shiou was afraid that the hook would hurt the pineapple, so he pulled it up and pulled it up.
Xiong Da was still waiting to eat fresh fish. It blinked its small eyes and looked at Qin Shiou, and Qin Shiou also looked at it, staring at it with big eyes. Qin Shiou had no choice but to show the fish hook that was cleaner than Xiong's big mouth and shook it, saying, "No more, I can't fish."
The big bear blinked in confusion. He was afraid of the ocean and lay on the dock and did not dare to look down. So he didn't understand how the fish came up. He knew that Qin Shiou threw the rod down and pulled it and the fish took the bait.
So after racking his brains, the bear moved his footsteps carefully to sit next to the fishing rod. He stretched out his big furry claws and touched them gently, and the fishing rod flew out and was directly slapped into the water.
Qin Shiou hurriedly went to catch him where he could. He looked at Xiong Da in depression. Xiong Da looked at him innocently. Finally, after watching for a while, he stretched his neck and roared twice. It probably meant that you should quickly pull the fishing rod and give me the fish to eat.
"There is no more fish, you still want to eat fish after you give up the fish." Qin Shiou said angrily.
Xiong Dada didn't understand why, and continued to look at Qin Shiou in confusion and expectation.
However, the fishing rod was not lost. The sea god was thrown out, and the snowball and ice skate immediately ran over. The instructions were issued, and the two little guys rushed to deliver his fishing rod.
Qin Shiou put away the fishing rod and was about to leave. Xiong Da suddenly rushed up and lay down at his feet, hugging one of his legs with fat claws, and moaning in his throat. The purpose of this posture was very clear: you can't leave, continue fishing and eating.
Under the pier, the pineapple floated with the water flow, and there was no trace of the clumsiness of the moose at all. Instead, it looked like a trendsetter. It also raised its head and sniffed twice from time to time, which was simple: I'm here, don't even think about fishing.
Qin Shiou was embarrassed by these two little guys. Fortunately, the deck boat Auerbach drove over with a "boom". Shaq took Nelson to jump onto the dock and saw Xiong Da hugging Qin Shiou's legs and laughing.
Shaq asked, "Boss, is Xiong Da hugging your thighs? Is there any space left on your thighs?"
Qin Shiou waved his hand in annoyance and said, "There is no space available now, but if you pull Xiong Da away, I can give you the empty space."
Shaq smiled and said, "Then forget it. Bear is still young now. By this time next year, I will not be able to beat it. I cannot establish a powerful enemy with potential and background for myself."
When Shake said something interesting, Qin Shiou touched Xiong's big furry round ears and couldn't help but remember a common saying in the novels I read before: It's better to insult the white-headed man than to bully the young man's poor.
Shaq reported to Qin Shiou about the report of collecting sample fish at a fixed location, which were all relatively optimistic results.
Qin Shiou remembered the sponge water he saw and asked, "It looks like it is about thirty kilometers westward, and there are many sponges appearing there. Do you know what's going on?"
Shaq asked, "What type of sponge? Ordinary sponge? Glass sponge? Hard sponge? I haven't patrolled the situation there these two days, so it's not very clear."
Not far away, Qin Shiou started the deck boat and took the two of them over to take a look.
There are indeed many sponges around here. Even if you don’t go into the water, you can see clusters of sponges just by looking down on the deck boat.
Seeing so many sponges, Shaq's face became serious and said, "Although I don't know what happened, I think this is unusual..."
Qin Shiou felt that this sentence sounded so familiar, so he subconsciously turned around and said to Nelson: "Yuan Fang, what do you think?"
Nelson didn't hear the name clearly, but only heard the problem clearly, so he thought about it and said, "Well, I'm standing on the deck and looking at it, I don't look very clearly, why don't I dive into the water and take a look?"
&&&&Today there are four chapters updated today, three of which are 3,000+ words, and one chapter is 2,000+ words, so the number of characters is still more than 10,000 words. Similar update rules will be adopted in the future, and it is no longer a fixed fifth update. I hope book friends understand that the shell is a part-time writing work, and there is really not so much energy to burst too much... (To be continued)
Chapter completed!